Hello - I wanted to introduce you to a band
called "REMY ZERO". (www.remyzero.com). They've already
played on Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, and they are going to
perform on the Craig Kilborn show the week of Nov. 19th.
<br><br>Here are some links for you to check them out for
yourself: <br>GetMusic.com session, which can be found
here:
<a href=http://www.getmusic.com/calendar/ecoustics/remyzero/index.html.
target=new>http://www.getmusic.com/calendar/ecoustics/remyzero/index.html.</a>
<br><br>Remy Zero Videos:<br><a href=http://launch.com
target=new>http://launch.com</a> or
at <a href=http://remyzeromusic.com. target=new>http://remyzeromusic.com.</a>
<br><br>RZ's song 'Save
Me' is now the SMALLVILLE theme song.<br><br><br>Band
Bio:<br><br>Remy Zero was born Remy Boligee in Chelsea, Alabama
about 1950. At around 16 he left home for Birmingham
and found a job unloading trains outside the city. By
1969 he was living in a shack in a railroad worker's
shantytown and had begun writing the first of hundreds of
highly idiosyncratic songs. Around this time, he
befriended Sam Bruno, a second-generation immigrant whose
family would create a supermarket empire throughout the
south.<br><br>Bruno had acquired an early model reel-to-reel tape
recorder and decided to use it to record the songs of Remy
Zero. Together they methodically filled almost thirty
hours of tape with music, conversation, ramblings, and
long periods of relative silence (in which trains,
dogs, and distant voices populate an eerily vivid sound
picture of his world).<br>By 1970, Bruno having since
lost count of Remy Zero gave his recorder and two
large boxes of tapes to the 12 year old Shelby Tate,
whose parents were close friends with the
Brunos.<br><br>Shelby was entranced by the strange recordings and
having no other tapes, played them constantly. By 1988,
he and his brother Cinjun had started a band with
their friends Cedric LeMoyne, Jeffrey Cain, and Greg
Slay. They eventually found themselves playing
exclusively the songs from the Remy Zero tapes and decided
that while free to rearrange, reinterpret, or recreate
the songs in varying ways, they would always preserve
the essence of the originals.<br><br>When they had a
chance to make a record they adhered to this idea and
even included snippets from the original recordings.
Their bewildering music is sometimes highly
expressionistic, sometimes bare and fractured and overall
impossible to categorize.<br><br>The band and record company
made numerous attempts to locate Remy Zero and his
relatives but have so far been unsuccessful. It is hoped by
using his name, Zero will come to hear of the band and
perhaps establish contact.
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--<br>Thank you for taking the time to check out REMY ZERO.
(www.remyzero.com). They're truly an amazing band and I wanted to
share my love for them with you.<br><br>Remy Zero Remy
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